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Small Vices (Spenser, #24) QUOTES

Small Vices (Spenser, #24) QUOTES

1 " I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies. "

― Robert B. Parker , Small Vices (Spenser, #24)

2 " Sandy’s face was very close to mine in the crowded room. She had a wide mouth and a lot of teeth. She had turned in her seat so that she had one thigh on each side of my leg. Her chest was against my arm. In another minute we wouldn’t have to go anywhere to have sex. "

― Robert B. Parker , Small Vices (Spenser, #24)

3 " Susan said. “Kindness is not dangerous. You have found a way to work and live which allows you to integrate the violence and the compassion. If you had no impulse to violence, your compassion wouldn’t be so admirable. If you had no compassion, your violence would be intolerable. You understand what I’m saying? "

― Robert B. Parker , Small Vices (Spenser, #24)

4 " Anger doesn’t have to be expressed. It is enough to know that you’re angry, and know why, and not lie to yourself about it. "

― Robert B. Parker , Small Vices (Spenser, #24)

5 " I watched the kids walking past us on the sidewalk. They looked pretty much like any other kids. They were dressed for each other. Oversized clothes, sneakers, hats on backwards, or sideways. Most of them tried to look confident. Most of them were full of pretense. All of them were a little overmatched by the speed at which the world came at them. But these kids weren’t like other kids, and I knew it. These kids were doomed. And they knew it. "

― Robert B. Parker , Small Vices (Spenser, #24)

6 " Somebody’s helping you and you have to take time off to listen to them and pretend you think their ideas are great and come up with an answer that makes them feel good, "

― Robert B. Parker , Small Vices (Spenser, #24)

7 " Pearl the Wonder Dog was asleep on her back, in the armchair next to the fireplace, with her feet sticking up in the air. "

― Robert B. Parker , Small Vices (Spenser, #24)

8 " And she pressed closer to me and we were silent and I smelled her, and felt her and listened to her, and knew that if I had nothing else but this, this would be enough. "

― Robert B. Parker , Small Vices (Spenser, #24)